Man who recruited the 9/11 hijackers is being held in Syria

[TomSea]

Man who recruited the 9/11 hijackers is being held in Syria
Liz Sly, The Washington Post Published 12:11 pm PST, Friday, November 30, 2018

QAMISHLI, Syria - There was nothing about the hungry, bedraggled man who surrendered at a remote desert checkpoint belonging to the United States' Kurdish allies this year to suggest he had once played a part in one of the biggest events in American history. He was limping from injuries to both knees, his beard was matted and teeming with lice, and he was fleeing from the Islamic State.

After he identified himself and checks were run, the confirmation came back. This was Mohammed Haydar Zammar, the man who recruited the hijackers who carried out the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, killing over 2,900 people and propelling the United States into unending conflict.

In his first interview with a U.S. news organization since 2001, conducted in the presence of the Kurdish guards who are holding him at a prison on the outskirts of the Syrian city of Qamishli, Zammar recounted his extraordinary journey. It was one that took him from the earliest days of the al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan to the battlefields of the Islamic State in Syria, via a rendition suspected to have been ordered by the CIA.

Read more at: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Man-who-recruited-the-9-11-hijackers-is-being-13434928.php#photo-16579805

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I really didn't know who this guy was until, I saw the earlier picture of him. He lived in Germany at one time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Haydar_Zammar  In fact, the wikipedia article calls him a German Muslim. He was born in Syria though.


So, apparently, 2 big terrorists caught this year, but it seems like it is like drug trafficking. Catch one, another one will take their place.

[Fishrrman]

TomSea wrote:
"So, apparently, 2 big terrorists caught this year, but it seems like it is like drug trafficking. Catch one, another one will take their place."

Indeed, they are like the bad apples that fall each season from the tree.

If you don't want the apples to sprout again, what must you do?

[Dexter]

If you don't want the apples to sprout again, what must you do?

That's a lot of dead people.